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Vinegar Hill: Building goes on the block
First the what's-playing sign was missing from the side of Vinegar Hill Theatre. Then a for-sale sign appeared, leaving loyal moviegoers wondering if their favorite cinema house was threatened again. The two events are not related– the movie sign blew down– and the theater is still open, but the building that houses it and Camino restaurant is on the block for $1.2 million.
When Ann Porotti and then-husband Chief Gordon purchased what would become Vinegar Hill Theatre in 1973, it was owned by Symington Garage and housed a motorcycle showroom, says Porotti.
Gordon had a vision, and by Valentine's Day 1976, Charlottesville had its first foreign film/classic American cinema.
In 2005, Porotti tried to sell the Market Street building, which by then also included a restaurant she'd added. That didn't happen, and in 2008 after the Virginia Film Festival, she announced Vinegar Hill was closing. That's when Adam Greenbaum, owner of the Visulite in Staunton, swooped in and took took over running the theater.
Porotti is blunt about why she wants to unload the Charlottesville landmark: "I'm almost 70. It's time to not be a landlord."
The 4,100-square-foot-building on .14 acre has already attracted quite a bit of interest in the week or so since the for-sale sign went up, says Bob Headrick with Nest Realty.
"A handful of people have looked at it," he says. "Everyone, so far, wants the theater to remain. The restaurant– one person wanted to incorporate it into the theater with a bar and restaurant."
Greenbaum, who just plunked down $60,000 to convert to digital screenings, is not alarmed that the building is for sale. "I'm actually optimistic," he says. "A lot of people are nostalgic for that theater," he adds, pointing to the community support from all the people who bought the merch Vinegar Hill sold to raise money for the digital system.
"It would be a huge loss for me," says Alexandria Searls, who ran the Vinegar Hill Film Festival, which showcased local film, for seven years.
"I'm not a fan of multiplexes, which I don't find to be community theaters," she says. "What's special about Vinegar Hill is it is just one screen, and it's a community theater."
"We'd lose a certain kind of film that's more independent, more under the radar," says long-time fan Carroll Trainum. And if Vinegar Hill closed, the Virginia Film Festival would lose a venue, he adds.
One person is not at all nostalgic about the theater: Ann Porotti. "I put in two heating systems in the last three years," she says. "No nostalgia."
She has her own take on the sign falling down: "The building has said, I am tired of being a theater," she suggests.
Much as her ex did 40 years ago, "I'd like someone to say, I have an idea," says Porotti.Read more on: ann porottivinegar hill theater
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Alexandria Searls' assertion that Vinegar Hill is a community theater is contestable. Simply possessing a single screen does not make it so. Short of hosting a few different festival events a year, how do they actively engage or otherwise interact with the community in any real way (other than asking for money to buy them a new lease on life)? I don't think VH needs or claims to be a community theater anyway. The Paramount and the new micro-cinema seem more likely candidates for such a title.
Perhaps Alexandria means to express her support for a locally and independently owned and operated theater. If so, I would whole heatedly share that sentiment.
VH has great popcorn, great programming and a good team operating their theater. Now all they need is a bigger screen, comfortable seating, a real sound system (to match their fancy new projector), a few screws (evidently), and a good scrub-down (ewww, sticky).
That will give us something to be genuinely nostalgic about.
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@ Just sayin' : How long have you been going there? There's plenty to be nostalgic about there. But it's been over 30 years history for me, so much of that reverie is based on an era of local attendance, movie rotation, and ownership that's long gone. It *was* a community theatre. It still has that vibe although it's not what it was.
This Cville native saw many classic and arthouse films at the VH in its heyday and for that I would be sorry to see it vanish.
Still, the co-founder made her sentiments pretty clear in the article above. I see no reason to disagree with her as she, as much as anyone, is entitled to feel nostalgia (or not) for that venerable venue. The aging building sounds more like a liability than a storied cinema where classics once unspooled for Charlottesville's nascent hipster crowd.
VH was always a cool place to see a film with cool people back when Downtown was mostly a ghost town. We'd walk down to Random Row for drinks & conversation after the first show, then run up the hill to catch the second half of the double feature.
Moviegoing has changed much in the last 30-odd years, as well as the business model underpinning the experience. I still enjoy films like L'Avventura, Allegro Non Troppo, and most of the Bergman and Renoir catalogs, but I no longer represent the core demographic that theater owners crave. I got older. The movie bidness increasingly skews to a younger crowd.
The VH audience has also perhaps grown more segmented in tastes as more an more options become available. Recall that VH opened before Charlottesville had any meaningful cable TV service and videotape rental stores were still several years in the future. If you wanted to see Fellini's 8 1/2 or watch Creature from the Black Lagoon with honest-to-God read and blue 3D glasses on Halloween, VH was your only choice.
Truth is, today I would rather watch a DVD from my Criterion Collection at a convenient time on my laptop, plugged into a not-bad surround-sound system, than try to get to an arthouse cinema on the odd chance they are screening the same flick at a time that works with my crazy-busy schedule.
Now VH is old and creaky and the sound system is rather tinny; perhaps that's part of its charms.
Nowadays, I think the Naro cinema in Norfolk executes the same indie/classic film concept with greater success. They do a bang-up business in a funky section of Norfolk, surrounded by coffee shops, book stores and -- gasp -- a video store next door. The Naro has the supporting infrastructure in place to thrive. The Alamo Drafthouse takes the concept of moviegoing in a similarly civilized direction and has a devoted fan base to support its screens.
Charlottesville still makes a lot of pretensions toward cosmopolitan living and support of the arts, yet you seldom see the arthouse cinemas in other cities peddling coffee mugs, t-shirts and tote bags in an effort to stay alive.
VH did have the best popcorn in town, though.
Thanks for the opportunity to reminisce.


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A majority of EU countries on Tuesday expressed opposition to the cultivation of a new genetically modified maize in Europe, yet the bloc's executive body, the European Commission, could be set to green-light the crop anyway.
At the meeting in Brussels, 19 countries, including France, said they were against the approval of Pioneer's GM maize known as 1507, and four countries abstained during the debate. The five who said they would vote in favor are Britain, Spain, Finland, Estonia and Sweden.
"For us it's an incomprehensible decision because the majority of EU member states do not want genetically modified maize," said Thierry Repentin, France's Europe minister.
The EU Observer explains that EU rules allow a law to be approved "if there is no qualified majority in the council of ministers rejecting it," noting that bigger members' votes are weighted more.
European Commissioner for Health Tonio Borg indicated to reporters after the meeting that the Commission would approve the new crop, though he left open the possibility that fresh evidence against it could bring new delays.
Environmental groups Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth urged the European Commission to heed the strong opposition—both political and public—and ban the cultivation of the new GM maize.
"This is a clear signal: the public don't want GM, and nor do the majority of their elected politicians or governments," said Mute Schimpf, food campaigner for Friends of the Earth Europe. "The European Commission must end its love-affair with biotech companies and their GM crops, and stop this toxic maize from reaching Europe's fields."
"The Commission cannot ignore the scientific, political and legal concerns voiced by a large majority of countries, by two thirds of the European Parliament and supported by most EU citizens," added Greenpeace EU agriculture policy director Marco Contiero, who referenced potential legal challenges.
"The European Court of Justice would very likely overturn an authorization of this GM maize in a legal challenge, as it did with the latest Commission approval of the Amflora GM potato. The Commission must learn from its mistakes and stop breaching the rules that help ensure the safety of what is grown in Europe," Contiero stated.
Schimpf also pointed to the environmental risks the the new crop poses, stating, "Europe's own safety experts concluded that Pioneer's maize harms butterflies and moths, and that other impacts on our countryside are unknown."
"We don't need to take risks with untested and toxic GM crops when safer and more sustainable ways to farm are at hand," Schimpf added.
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Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Selah's Home Birth Story
Thursday morning, April 2nd, I woke up and felt a trickle of fluid that I thought might be amniotic fluid. I got a little silly, jumped up and down, did some deep squats, etc, trying to see if more came out. A teeny tiny bit did, so I didn't really worry about it, but thought it was possible my water had broken and that Selah's head was just blocking the passage of a gush of fluid. I called my midwife Jasmine later that morning and she told me just to pay attention, that we would meet at 6pm, and to call sooner with any changes. I went about my day, babysat Juniper for a while, visited El in the hospital, drove Sari around, etc, and nothing interesting happened. At our home visit that night, however, Jasmine checked the fluid and it was indeed amniotic fluid. She also told me that I was just a fingertip dilated and about 50% effaced. Mike and I were very excited, but we knew that now the clock was ticking for me to go into labor or risk going to the hospital. Jasmine gave me some herbs to stimulate labor, blue and black cohosh, to take every 30 minutes until I went to bed. Mike insisted on going out for sushi and I obliged, realizing this was our last night as a childless couple. I watched him enjoy his sushi, as I had no appetite at the meal, and began having regular but non painful contractions around 8. When we got home, I knew that this was labor and crawled into bed in an attempt to rest before the ultramarathon ahead. I never was able to sleep that night, but was at least able to shut my eyes and doze between contractions. By 2:30am, I was too uncomfortable to lay down anymore. Mike got up with me, but I sent him back to bed. I really wanted to be alone, without even Mike or Jasmine. Around 3, I timed several contractions and found that they were already 3 minutes apart and lasting 45-60 seconds.
Mike got out of bed around 5:30 to find the most serene scene we could have imagined. It was lightly snowing outside and still dark. I was quietly moaning through contractions, trying to follow Ina May's wisdom of using low toned moans to keep the mouth and jaw loose and keep the mind off of the pain. In retrospect, I realize that these contractions were not painful at all, but I thought they were at the time. Jasmine arrived at the house around 7:30, glad to find me in active labor. She checked my vital signs, listened to the baby, and quietly prepared the living room for birth. Throughout this time, I did not want any help or for anyone to touch me (hence the many blog posts from Mike).
Through the morning, the contractions remained 3 minutes apart but slowly increased in intensity. It was like climbing a set of stairs--they would be at a certain level of pain that initially, I thought was the maximum I could handle, then I would "get used to" that level of pain and they would climb to the next step of intensity to start the cycle over. By noon, the contractions were very intense and I started vomiting during them. During a very intense retching session, my water bag broke for real, with several huge gushes that made me think I was peeing my pants. In hindsight, it was somewhat funny--I was on hands and knees in the living room, violently puking into a trashcan while asking for a towel to protect the carpet from what I thought was pee. The pain was so intense by this point, I was convinced that I was going through transition, the most painful part of labor. Mike and Jasmine started to get the pool ready and Jasmine decided to check my cervix. I was absolutely crushed to find out that I was 1 cm dilated and 80% effaced. 8 hours of active labor for that!! At that point, I was pretty sure that I would end up at the hospital with an epidural. I could not imagine going for another 24-30 hours with that kind of pain, and I knew the pain would only increase in intensity.
Sari came by just after the exam and gave me a big pep talk. She told me, "Joy, it hurts like hell. It is going to hurt like hell here or at the hospital. You can do this, I promise, you can do this." I didn't believe her. I kept saying that I couldn't do it, and Mike was incredibly supportive and encouraging, never once saying that we could go to the hospital if I wanted to. After noon, Mike could NOT leave my side, even for a second. Jasmine stopped filling the pool (I was not to get into the water until I was 5cm because the hot water often slows labor, just like an epidural would at the hospital) and had me get into the shower. The warm water of the shower felt great, but my contractions did not pause--I was the energizer bunny, they were 3 minutes apart and 45-60 seconds no matter what I did.
I constantly had to change positions to find the most comfort depending on where Selah was in relation to my body. I often found myself on my hands and knees, slumped over the ball. I was working so hard and was so tired, the I literally fell asleep between most of the contractions. Mike laughs about it now, telling me how he had some great inspirational words that he had really thought through, and that as soon as he started to tell them to me, my head would bob and I would be out.
Sometimes I stood up, sometimes I sat on the couch, sometimes I was on hands and knees, sometimes I squatted. The most painful position by far was laying in bed. For that reason alone, I cannot imagine ever doing a hospital birth and being "strapped" to the bed with the fetal monitor, IV, blood pressure cuff, etc.
Jasmine and Alicia were unbelievably supportive, calm, and necessary. I could not have done this without them.
As things progressed, I really started to lose faith in myself, not in my ability to give birth, but in my ability to do so without pain medication. I was also getting very dehydrated and could not keep even a drop of honey in my system. Jasmine reminded me that the vast majority of women around the world that were giving birth at the same time were doing so naturally. Mike squeezed my hips and rubbed my back to lessen the pain of contractions. At some point, I began laboring while sitting on the toilet backwards. It was the perfect height and the most comfortable place I could find. In between contractions, I would fall back against Mike and fall asleep. Then I would wake suddenly, yell for the puke bucket, and begin moaning through the contraction. Around 4:30 in the afternoon (4 1/2 hours after the news of being 1 cm), Jasmine asked if she could check me again and asked what I thought would be a reasonable amount of progress (enough to keep me from demanding pain medication). I told her 5 cm, but in the back of my head, I kept thinking that even if I was 5cm, I knew I still had to make it through transition (7-10 cm) and didn't think I could do it. She checked me and I was 6-7cm, which really perked me up and gave me a renewed sense of energy. I was able to get in the pool, which was relaxing but did not slow contractions at all. It also made me hot, so I got out pretty quickly and got back on the toilet backwards and continued to labor for another couple of hours. By 6:15 or so, I started to involuntarily grunt in the middle of contractions. Jasmine had told me about this and said it was just the body starting to push. She checked my cervix again and I was nearly complete, with a little cervical lip. I was so excited!
Jasmine gave me 3 or 4 doses of homeopathic arnica to reduce the lip and had me get back into the birthing tub. My body did the grunty thing through several more contractions until I was completely dilated, about 6:55. During those contractions, I could not get relief at all, even between contractions. I was in the pool spinning in circles, writhing in pain until my body started pushing. Pushing was the most overwhelming sensation of muscular contraction I have ever experienced. Every muscle in my body did what it was supposed to do, seemingly beyond my control. Even the muscles in my face were contracted, making for really silly looking faces. Jasmine kept trying to get me to slow down and not push so hard, which I tried to do. The pushing contractions were such a relief compared to before--even though my body was going through this very intense experience, it was not painful, just intense. I pushed the way my body wanted to, with very little coaching, for about 40 minutes until Selah was born at 7:35 pm. Mike started weeping the moment she came out while I just tried to get it together after all that work! She started crying and turned pink within a few seconds of delivery. We just looked at her face for a couple of minutes before we realized we hadn't looked at the goods to see if she was a boy or girl! What a wonderful surprise when we saw that she was a girl!
I soon got out of the tub and onto the birthing stool to deliver the placenta and for Mike to cut the umbilical cord.
Within 10 minutes of Selah's birth, our new family crawled into our bed to bond alone. This was a beautiful and heartwarming time, one absolutely unique to home birth. Selah latched on and started breastfeeding and we just looked at her perfect little face. While we bonded, Jasmine and Alicia cleaned the living room and made us a yummy plate of cheese, fresh bread (thanks, Sari!), eggs, and fruit.
An hour or so after delivery, the midwives came into our room to do Selah's newborn exam. She aced it! We then excitedly called our friends and family to give them our joyful news.
Selah was weighed on something like a fish scale with a loop of fabric attached to it. She was 7 pounds, 5 oz, and 19 inches long.
What an amazing story!
11 comments:
- Reese said...
Yeah! Such a great story - and you'll be so glad you blogged about it b/c a year from now you'll go back and read it and relive it and think to yourself that a year couldn't possibly have passed since it happened.
Good work, Mama!
- Dave and Kasey said...
Good job Joy! I'm glad to hear about it from your experience. Everyone has such different birth stories!
- meg said...
And she, Selah, was worth every minute of it.
- lanerdoo said...
SOOO cool. It makes me want to do it all over again, sans hospital and drugs. Your story makes me realize just how different my experience was and how much I could have done at home.
I'm so very proud of you and appreciate your story.
Thanks Joyful!
- Morgs said...
Your story is soooo encouraging. I'm not having a home birth but I'm really not looking forward to the pain. Your strength is enlightening!
- Lindsey K said...
wow Joy, I am moved by your determination and strength. you are one tough cookie and your family is beautiful. As one who has never experienced labor I appreciate you sharing all of the details of your story too, it is inspiring :) love you!!
Oh, Joy, what a baeutiful account of the enduring love that happens at childbirth. The two of you crossed emotions that will strengthen your relationship and bring a sweetness at parenting your adorable Selah. Thank you for sharing your story it was inspiring! Momica
- Unknown said...
OMG - those pics brought a tear to my eye! Congratulations! Hope you are doin ok.Thank you for sharing your story - I love it! I just had my first baby - 19.5 hour labour, very exhausting, but my little man came in weighing a healthy 7.7lbs. It was a nightmare delivery (tore both ways!) to be honest, maybe thats because he's my first! I had an epidural after 15 hours but his head wouldn't move down so they had to assist. I was pretty worried that he wouldn't latch on because of the epidural, but he seems to be feeding fine and I am a very proud and happy mother of Marlow. You should hare your story with all the other mummies at http://my.bounty.com/forums/ I know they would love it! xxx
- Kendra at New Life On A Homestead said...
Thank you so much for taking the time to type out this whole post to share your story with the rest of us. I had given up hope of being able to have a homebirth, but just tonight I met with a midwife (who I found out actually lives on my road!) and I am very excited about her delivering our baby here! I loved your story. Thanks again for the encouragement!
- Kate said...
Absolutely beautiful story! You champion! Thank you so much for sharing :)
- Larissa Jade said...
Awesome story, I loved reading it. I'm so glad you got the birth you wished for & hope you are all doing well!


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Jake Davidson had a date with Kate Upton Wednesday morning — on the phone. After posting a viral video asking the Sports Illustrated model to prom, the Los Angeles high school senior appeared on the TODAY show March 20 and got a surprise phone call from Upton herself.
Savannah Guthrie and Hoda Kotb got the supermodel on the line to speak directly with Davidson, 17, about his prom request. "I absolutely love the video," the Sports Illustrated cover star, 20, said of his Youtube video posted on March 16. "It was so hilarious and so creative. Thank you so much for doing that, I really appreciate it."
After becoming momentarily speechless, Davidson told Upton, "This just got so much better now that you're on the phone. I'm telling you it will be a great night, great evening –- I could even get the curfew extended hopefully by my parents maybe. We could go to a great dinner before. I hope you'd be interested if your schedule is free, and what time should I pick you up if you are interested?"
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With competition, you must advertise your strengths and downplay your weaknesses. The reason is so that you can maintain an edge over your teammates. The team functions like a poker competition. The competition resolves which member has the strongest set of skills so that the most difficult work can be assigned to the one with the greatest skill. This minimizes the risk of failure.
With collaboration, you must advertise your weaknesses and downplay your strengths. The reason is so that the difficult high-risk work can be assigned or divided efficiently among the group. It ensures the difficult work is assigned away from those with the least skill, which is another way to minimize the risk of failure. It's also a demonstration of honesty for the purpose of establishing trust. Trust is critical for fostering an environment for collaboration.
I'm not sure I fully agree with this breakdown, but it is a neat way to look at the issue.
The key problem is that you want tasks to be assigned to people to match skills. But skill is an unknown and must be "discovered". Collaboration sounds better, but what if competition is actually more accurate at skill discovery?
The big problem comes when their is a signalling mismatch. If someone's ability to signal strength outdoes their actual strength in competition, or someone's ability to signal weakness overstates their weakness.
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Question though, would we be allowed to play the "NPCs?" Like someone handling the village Shopkeeper juggling a thousand orders for longswords while adventurers try to peddle off 100 gp worth of 1 sp herbs, or the local Innkeeper who is getting very tired of the thousandth bright-eyed hero asking for "rumors" and if he's got some rats in the cellar.
I will also vote for the first one, though the second place could be a small area, like an island or some place to the East of the first idea's world.Will there be some kind of system in place?
I'm confident we can write conflicts agreeable to all parties without consulting a side game of dice. Outside of E I'm happy to run tabletop games for my own group, but on E I've watched hundreds of system games start out on a thrill of character creation and point allotment, then leave the gate on a slow crawl toward a shallow grave.
Why not have a church? It could be a church, or more of a temple, dedicated to the worship of the goddess of lust, revenge and trickery. The temple is a source of quests for the characters:The prostitutes in the temple need new outfits so they can get more "donations." Go kill some ooky spiders and take their silk.The wolves around the town are the perfect source for leather. Go kill some wolves and take their skins as trade items.The wolves around the town are scaring away potential "donors." Go kill some wolves and take their tails as souvenirs.The bandits around the town are scaring away potential "donors." Go kills some bandits and take their ears as souven... ears.Then there could be a quest to join the temple.
I like the Wuxia idea but I am unfamiliar with the term "cheesecake", LOL.
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The following article by Brad Sigal is from Fight Back! News:
Winona, MN – On Jan. 3, an FBI agent contacted Waziyatawin, a well-known Dakota activist and scholar. The agent from the FBI's Mankato, Minnesota office wanted to question her about her beliefs and about the content of a speech she gave in Winona on Nov. 8, 2010. Waziyatawin said she declined to talk with the FBI agent about the presentation or her viewpoints and instead referred him to her attorney.
According to a statement being circulated by her supporters, Waziyatawin's Nov. 8 speech concerned the brutal realities of the colonization of this continent's land, its resources, and First Nations People. She also spoke of a common need to restore the environment and a way of living that is not reliant on capitalism and the destruction of nature.


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Edward Olmstead and his wife Grace Alice Evans were married in 1892 and five years later started their family. They had a family portrait taken after their four children were born:
Left to right are Charles Allen, Edward (Ed, father), Helen Elizabeth, Alice Sarah, Grace Alice (mother), Wilber Evans (Bill).
Fast forward, seven years after Alice was born, they had another child, Grace Louise. So, how do you solve the problem of that wonderful family photo hanging on the wall being incomplete?
Well, you "photoshop it" early 1900's style.
Pretty good job of photoshopping for an amateur long before computers, wasn't it?!
Except for Grace looking forward instead of at the photographer off to stage right, whoever did the cutting and pasting of the picture did a nice job of editing the family portrait, even lining up the shadows nicely.
Years later, one of Ed and Grace Olmstead's grandsons was showing me a copy of this picture and he mentioned that Grace Louise, the daughter, wasn't originally there and that he had a copy of that original.
Well, the scans of the two photographs arrived yesterday and with his generous permission, I am sharing them here.
Now, in our updated family portrait, left to right, we have:
Charles Allen Olmstead (1901-?), Grace Louise Olmstead (1909-1995), Edward Olmstead (1868-1959), Helen Elizabeth Olmstead (1899-1979), Alice Sarah Olmstead (1902-1996), Grace Alice Evans Olmstead (1868), Wilber Evans Olmstead (1897-1972)
The link to this post is http://genea-adventures.blogspot.com/2013/01/photoshop-early-1900s-style.html
©2013 Erica Dakin Voolich
For years I've tried to climb numerous "brick walls" as I've worked on my family history -- many of my challenges are my women ancestors. I've met many wonderful, helpful genealogists, town clerks, historians, and societies along the way. Some of the names I'm working on: DAKIN, WORTHINGTON, SEARING, RICHARDSON, DeLOSS/LOSS, COPELAND, HARVEY, WRIGHT, EVANS, HELSTEN, SMITH (Conn.), HEARTY, ROBBERT, BOGART, NYE, BLODGETT & COBB.
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Divers still search for clues in St. Simons death
BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) - Divers on St. Simons Island will soon resume searching for evidence in the drowning death and shooting of a Glynn County commissioner.
The Brunswick News reports (http://bit.ly/VPw8QX ) divers will go back to combing the Frederica River for clues in the Dec. 11 death of Commissioner Tom Sublett in the coming week after they took last week off for Christmas.
Georgia Bureau of Investigation agent Mike McDaniel says powerful currents in the river are making the search difficult. He says investigators dropped a 12-pound weight into the river near where Sublett's body was found. Within days the weight moved 40 feet.
A friend found Sublett floating beside a docked boat after he failed to come home late at night. An autopsy showed Sublett drowned after suffering a gunshot to the head.
Information from: The Brunswick News, http://www.thebrunswicknews.com


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Gustavo Fares is a native of Argentina. As Professor of Spanish and Co-Director of the Latin American Studies Program at Lawrence University his primary responsibilities include teaching all levels of Spanish and Latin American culture courses and advising students.
He is the author of five books, among them La inmensa minoría. Latino@s en Estados Unidos y las identidades posicionales (Buenos Aires: Dunken, 2014), Contemporary Argentinean Women Writers. A Critical Anthology (Florida: U. P. of Florida Press, 1998, with E. Hermann), and Imagining Comala. The Space in Juan Rulfo's Works (New Tork: Peter Lang, 1991) (in Spanish). Fares' topics of research include Latin American cultural studies, legal studies, visual arts, and border studies. In 2004 he was a Fulbright Visiting Professor at the Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, in Mendoza, Argentina. Between 2015 and 2020. Dr. Fares has been selected as a Fulbright Specialist scholar. He has also worked with the College Board (1998-present) as reader, member and chairperson of the AP Development Spanish Language and Literature Committee, Chief Reader, and AP consultant.
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Merry Christmas!!
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Awww so sweet! I've been trying to get into gingerbread baking but still haven't found a recipe I like yet, I like my gingerbread soft and not too spicy. What were these like?ReplyDelete
Your houses (more like village) are too cute! I love the mug idea. So clever!
Can't wait to see you in the new year m'dear! Have a safe one xo
The mug gift idea is so adorbs!! <333 Looks fabulous.ReplyDelete
Merry Christmas, Rhonda! I love the picture with the construction sign. :)ReplyDelete
Looking good Rhonda. Definitely putting all those decorating skills to the test. However, I still find it hard to believe it's not all the booze that's making you happy.ReplyDelete
@ Phuoc these are exactly what u described they're not spicy at all, the flavors are very subtle and they're not rock solid like the other biscuits you buy, think it all depends on your baking time tho but give these a go think ull really like them!ReplyDelete
@ Regina you too hun!! Merry christmas!! Hehe think only u and I find that construction sign funny lol
@ Guy hahaha you make me sound like an alcoholic!!
Bravo! You did an excellent job!ReplyDelete
Have a wonderful Holiday Season, with happiness and prosperity throughout the coming year


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Missouri has used a state budget reserve fund to improve its cash flow.
The Office of Administration reported that $175 million was borrowed from the Budget Reserve Fund in March. The state now has used $375 million during the current year. All the money will be repaid by May 15.
Budget Director Linda Luebbering said Tuesday the state regularly uses the reserve fund during March. She says those who receive tax refunds frequently file faster than those who owe additional taxes.
Officials also reported Tuesday that state revenues through the first three-quarters of the fiscal year have increased 8.3 percent compared with last year.
Individual tax collections are up about 5.3 percent and corporate income taxes are up 4.3 percent. Sales taxes are up less than 1 percent.


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Feeling all kinds of relief after finally turning in our mountain of visa paperwork to the Spanish government last week, which included a hot-off-the-press lease for our first tiny little apartment in Barcelona!!! (Can't stop staring at this charming photo from our soon-to-be balcony.) If all goes according to plan, we will be packing up the dogs and our suitcases and moving over there on October 15. Which is getting so close! We're definitely starting to feel all the feels about leaving Kansas City…but more than ever, we're also just feeling so excited to finally be there. 💛
Crushing hard on all of FashionABLE's bags lately. They're ethically made in Africa, and they are freaking gorgeous. I've been carrying around one of their camel totes (my specific model is discontinued) full-time for about a year and a half now, and absolutely love it. But I think I'm going to treat myself to a fresh new tote before moving to Spain. Now, the question is just which one to choose! 😊 On that note, I'm also…
Stocking up on a few other essentials from home before our move. We're literally each only bringing 2 large suitcases with us, so both Barclay and I have been ultra-minimizing our clothes and shoes lately down to the most capsule of capsule wardrobes. But that said, I did just order a new pair of Girlfriend leggings (<– my absolute favorites, plus they're ethically made), semi-matching pairs of Allbirds for Barclay and I (<– yep, totally going to be "that couple", plus we needed some good new walking shoes), and two new supersoft dresses from Lou & Grey (<– because…comfort) to pack in my suitcase. Ha, we've realized over the past few months that most of our favorite brands do not ship abroad. So from here on out, get ready to hear about random finds we stumble upon in Spain!
Starting to try and learn more about best practices for bringing dogs along on overseas flights. We have all of Henry and Fiona's international medical/legal paperwork taken care of by now. But I'm feeling super-nervous about their wellbeing on the actual flights themselves (one 3-hr flight to NY, one 7.5-hr flight to Barcelona), especially since Henry has always had terrible anxiety in kennels. 😕 Have any of you ever flown with your furry friends before? Any good tips?
Loving DuoLingo lately, along with my new favorite way to practice Spanish…by watching Netflix! Did you know that you can search shows to see which ones offer Spanish subtitles? (Or any language, for that matter, just pull the little dropdown bar to see your options.) Turns out practicing Spanish is way more fun with Jim Gaffigan and Bridget Jones and Jessica James.
Researching options to create an album book from our wedding photos. I spent about an hour the other night looking at options on various websites…annnnd it was enough to make my head spin. Halp! 😂 Any great recommendations out there?
Marveling at this new little Moment wide-angle lens that I purchased for my iPhone. If any of you are wanting to kick up your phone photography game, I totally recommend it. It just snaps on and off of your phone whenever you'd like to use it, and gives you nearly 2x the viewing range in your photos. (And by comparison to wide-angle lenses for dSLRs, this puppy is a freaking steal. Just be sure to purchase a clip-on case to go with it to fit your specific phone.) We've been tinkering around with ours on a few trips lately, and really love it.
Following along closely with all of the big grocery news lately. Google and Walmart joining forces? Amazon lowering prices at Whole Foods on Monday? I'm totally fascinated by how quickly our grocery industry is evolving lately.
Freaking out over the ending to House Of Cards. No spoilers here, but wowza, that got dark. Annnnd totally hooked me in for next season. (P.S. A friend who's online dating recently ran across a profile of a guy who said he was "looking for his own Clare Underwood." Um, really? 😳)
Listening through every episode of this podcast this week. So many of my favorites have been guests this past month.
Feeling very, very ready for fall soup season. I mean, if it were up to me, summer would last forever and ever. But I've been making a list of all of the new soups and stews I'd like to try next season, and they are sounding mighty cozy and comforting right now. (Also, as always, if you have any requests — I'd love to hear 'em!)
Continuing to read and watch and listen and learn as much as possible lately — and stretch beyond my usual new and information bubbles — to better understand the perspectives of everyone living in our country right now. (As well as those grieving in our country-to-be.) Barclay and my friends and I have had countless conversations lately trying to learn what actions are actual helpful — and what actions are not — when it comes to standing up for justice and seeking to build unity in our communities. And goodness, we all have so much to learn, don't we? Still, I'm so thankful for the brave voices speaking truth right now, and find hope in seeing the hundreds of big and little ways lately that I see humility and courage and kindness leading the way. More thoughts on that to come. 💛
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Allbirds are the best!!! You're going to love them!
Also, THAT VIEW. I can't wait to follow along with your move! :)
I moved my dogs to South Africa and back. It's stressful but we had no problems. My vet suggested feeding them and giving them treats in their kennel for a few weeks leading up to the trip. It seemed to help them get used to the kennel. Also get them calming collars. I used the Adaptil Comfort Zone collars. Good luck!
I just had my second wedding anniversary and I still haven't put together a photo book. I've started on them a few times but get frustrated with the platform (shutterfly was the most recent) and give up. If you find a great platform, please share!!
Are you not able to take Henry in the cabin with you on an overseas flight? I flew domestic with my Westie once in a soft sided carrier and a doggy Quaalude. She stuck her head out of the top of the carrier for a brief moment during the flight, sleepily looked around and then retracted back into her cave. Never heard or saw from her the rest of the way, and she did fine. Good luck!!
If you have the time and patience to do it, Blurb is amazing for wedding albums. I made ours for our first anniversary a few years ago, and downloaded the software so that I had total control over every page. Once I finalized it, I sat on the project until they were running a 50% off promo, then uploaded and ordered. I got two beautiful albums for around $300 (included shipping). I also added on pdf copies of our books and I love having them on my ipad – I scroll through every few months =)
We used Blurb.com to print off our wedding books. The quality is fantastic.
My husband and I recently started using DuoLingo based on an older blog post of yours for our upcoming trip to Paris! Its a great way to refresh my memory. Thank you! :-)
Re: your dogs' travel to Barcelona – our friends are currently on flights to Frankfurt and then to Istanbul (moving there for three years) with their 8 month old sweet as can be lab mix aboard and he's never flown before, so I'll happily report on how he does on the flight legs and recommend or not recommend their airline and handling of him as soon as we hear they've arrived! It's always so worrisome with our furry family members!
I have a friend who just moved her VERY anxious dog from Chicago to Bucharest. She used CBD oil to calm him during the flight. You can read about her adventures here: https://brookereavey.com/2017/08/07/made-it-to-bucharest/ You can contact her through the blog.
Just purchased my first tote from Fashionable. Thanks for the recommendation. Their products are beautiful.
How have I never heard of FashionABLE before?! Holy smokes. You've created an addict already. Your soon-to-be balcony is something of dreams, BTW! Thanks for sharing all of these great things!
Buy a new bag in Europe! Always more fun to get things over there!!
Be careful with CBD oil if you end up using it for your pups — some dogs (including one of mine) can have a real reaction to it — wouldn't recommend for the flight. Hopefully your pups are small enough to travel in-cabin with y'all. Acclimation to the crate with food and treats over a few weeks is the way to go!
That balcony—I'm loving it! Can't wait to see the pics that follow! Thanks for all the info on your fave items; think I need to try those shoes!
I'm obsessed with my Girlfriend leggings! I got in on their kickoff campaign awhile back and am so happy their full line is now out. Best. Leggings. Ever.
P.S. Which Allbirds did you order?
Mulligatawny soup is so amazing, I would love to see what you could do with it! Good luck with the furbaby flights, we only flew our cat once and it was a hooper flight with him in the cabin, so no advice there. Have the best time in Spain!
Allbirds are the best! My son bought a pair and I liked them so much that he bought me a pair for Mother's Day. I then bought my husband a pair of Father's Day and my son wanted a second pair for his birthday. So comfy! Also, love Fashionable bags! I have the Mamuye tote in cognac (I get tons of compliments on it) and the Alem tote in chocolate , plus the Emnet pouch. I bought my best friend a bucket bag and my daughters mini bucket bags during their sale. The leather is such high quality, and I love their mission! Thanks for the heads up about Girlfriend leggings. I will give them a try :)
My husband and I (and our two small kids) are moving to Brazil a week after you all. :) I have diligently been using DuoLingo, but had no idea you could search on Netflix to see what shows were available in different languages!!! There is not a ton in Portuguese but at least there are some children's shows. I have enjoyed following your blog and trying some new recipes. Best wishes to you all (including your dogs!!) as you enjoy your adventures in Spain!
I have just returned to US after 43 yrs. in Europe—I have a sticky about traveling internationally w/dogs—I always have 2 with me on the flights—check out the Spoiled Maltese forum—you will find it there listed as a sticky.
Loved reading this Ali! Your apartment view is darling, and I can relate to the nervous anticipation mingled with excitement (I'm about to head off to my sophomore year of college, and I'm having all the feels). Loved all your recommendations, esp. the fashion stuff and the Oprah podcast! And I had no idea about the Google and Walmart merger!
For wedding album: Artifact Uprising all the way! Their core values around beautiful, tangible memories and sustainability are enough to garner my support, but the products are super high-quality and really amazing keepsakes. We've ordered everything from large scale framed prints, to 4x6s, to our wedding album from them. Their print quality is much higher than other sites, and the paper quality is unparalleled. They feel like pieces of art! Plus their book creator is easy to use, with plenty of great layouts to drag and drop your photos into, or the option to create your own. They've been running lots of sales lately so just hop on their mailing list and I'm sure you can get an even better deal!
I flew across the country with my cat. The luggage scanners were not working at our small airport so we had to go through security when we got to the next airport – OUTSIDE! When they told me I had to remove the cat from her carrier bag and walk through the metal detector, both of us were in a panic. The cat was clawing it's way over my shoulder and I was scared to death she was going to get loose and be running down the runway. The rest of the trip was a piece of cake after getting through that experience. Tip: Expect the unexpected!
Good luck on your new adventure!
I'm right there with you on fall soup season! Go away, miserable heat!
I'm so happy for you and Barclay!! :) Barcelona is an incredible location. I've started to pick up on Spanish just from watching the show "Narcos", although it's probably different because that's set in Colombia. I totally recommend it!!
I found this wedding album from Etsy shop Starboard Press and plan to order for photos from our upcoming wedding… you might like it as well! xo
So excited for you Ali! My hubby and I are headed to Barcelona this month! I can't wait to see some of the things you written about!
If you're still looking for a great site to make a wedding book, here is the one I used to make my daughter's and some friends wedding books. It's great because you can either use a template or customize.
Another up and coming site that partners with Fuji is:
I just think you are the best! Thank you for sharing your never-ending ideas.


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So I thought, "I will talk about death." Seemed to be the passion today. Actually, it's not about death. It's inevitable, terrible, but really what I want to talk about is, I'm just fascinated by the legacy people leave when they die. That's what I want to talk about.
So Art Buchwald left his legacy of humor with a video that appeared soon after he died, saying, "Hi! I'm Art Buchwald, and I just died." And Mike, who I met at Galapagos, a trip which I won at TED, is leaving notes on cyberspace where he is chronicling his journey through cancer. And my father left me a legacy of his handwriting through letters and a notebook. In the last two years of his life, when he was sick, he filled a notebook with his thoughts about me. He wrote about my strengths, weaknesses, and gentle suggestions for improvement, quoting specific incidents, and held a mirror to my life.
After he died, I realized that no one writes to me anymore. Handwriting is a disappearing art. I'm all for email and thinking while typing, but why give up old habits for new? Why can't we have letter writing and email exchange in our lives? There are times when I want to trade all those years that I was too busy to sit with my dad and chat with him, and trade all those years for one hug. But too late. But that's when I take out his letters and I read them, and the paper that touched his hand is in mine, and I feel connected to him.
So maybe we all need to leave our children with a value legacy, and not a financial one. A value for things with a personal touch — an autographed book, a soul-searching letter. If a fraction of this powerful TED audience could be inspired to buy a beautiful paper — John, it'll be a recycled one — and write a beautiful letter to someone they love, we actually may start a revolution where our children may go to penmanship classes.
So what do I plan to leave for my son? I collect autographed books, and those of you authors in the audience know I hound you for them — and CDs too, Tracy. I plan to publish my own notebook. As I witnessed my father's body being swallowed by fire, I sat by his funeral pyre and wrote. I have no idea how I'm going to do it, but I am committed to compiling his thoughts and mine into a book, and leave that published book for my son.
I'd like to end with a few verses of what I wrote at my father's cremation. And those linguists, please pardon the grammar, because I've not looked at it in the last 10 years. I took it out for the first time to come here. "Picture in a frame, ashes in a bottle, boundless energy confined in the bottle, forcing me to deal with reality, forcing me to deal with being grown up. I hear you and I know that you would want me to be strong, but right now, I am being sucked down, surrounded and suffocated by these raging emotional waters, craving to cleanse my soul, trying to emerge on a firm footing one more time, to keep on fighting and flourishing just as you taught me. Your encouraging whispers in my whirlpool of despair, holding me and heaving me to shores of sanity, to live again and to love again." Thank you.


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From the second database labeled "Oracle Database 188.8.131.52", a line labeled "4" connects to the text "Build STS". A second unlabeled line connects to the text "No Data Necessary". An arrow labeled "5" points to a third database in the lower right corner labeled "Oracle Database 10.2.0.2 or higher - Test". This arrow is further labeled with the text "SQL" and "Remote Test-execute (db link)".
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Read the article & Examine the images below to discover one of the most interesting REAL LIFE mummy finds ever!
Original article courtesy of National Geographic Kids Online Magazine.
The archaeologist was standing in a sacred location, a courtyard near the peak of the biggest pyramid at El Brujo—a ceremonial site of the ancient Moche (MO-chay) people. The civilization's rulers, who controlled the north coast of Peru from A.D. 100 to 800, probably reserved this spot for a king or a great warrior. What valuable treasures would lie inside this leader's tomb?
The Mummy Unwrapped
Finally, after weeks of careful digging, the scientists peered through the ancient dust. In front of them lay one of the world's largest and best-preserved mummies. As they unwrapped the bundled layers, hundreds of treasures were revealed, including gold nose rings and necklaces, sparkling crowns, and huge war clubs usually reserved for the Moche's greatest warriors.
But when archaeologists lifted a gold bowl covering the mummy's face, they found the biggest surprise yet. The mummy wasn't a king or a male warrior; it was a young Moche woman—and she was covered in mysterious tattoos!
The Moche Way
Until now research had shown that only men ruled Moche society—a warrior culture in which prisoners were captured in battle and sacrificed in bloody rituals atop this very pyramid. Where did this 20-something woman fit in? Was she a queen? A high priestess? A warrior princess?
One thing's for sure: This Moche VIP would have received star treatment. When visiting her people, servants would have carried her high above the crowds on a litter, a special platform reserved for only the most elite figures. Says anthropologist John Verano: "Her gold objects would have shimmered so brightly you could have seen them from miles away."
Twenty Questions
Today this mystery woman is making headlines again. Her well-sealed tomb helped preserve hundreds of ancient artifacts—even her dresses and braided hair. "It's like going back in a time machine to A.D. 450 and seeing her just as she was," says Verano. But now the scientists have unearthed more questions than answers.
What did the mummy's elaborate tattoos mean? With drawings of snakes, spiders, crabs, and imaginary animals crawling along her arms, legs, and feet, she has more body art than any known Moche mummy. No one knows for sure what these creatures mean, but the Moche may have believed the animals would bring healthy harvests.
And why was the mummy buried with 23 spear throwers? Even the most powerful male leaders were buried with only one or two. Did her bodyguards leave the weapons to protect her in the afterlife?
Most important, why did this adored woman die at such a young age? The skeleton showed no sign of disease or injury. Some experts think she may have died while giving birth, but researchers are still uncertain.
Tomb Be Continued
Whoever this woman was, it's clear from her elaborate burial that she was a star among her people. And now the ancient heroine's tomb is helping experts re-create her life and the world of the Moche people.


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'English titles chalta hai!'
Bollywood has rediscovered the KISS (Keep It Short and Simple) rule, at least where film titles are concerned. Having had its fill of long names — Bollywood's now high on short words, and most of them straight off the English vocabulary rack. (via 'English titles chalta hai!' – The Times of India).
Bollywood, Tollywood, Kollywood
This is an interesting (though superficial) article on how Hindi film industry, out of Mumbai, uses English. As far back as my memory goes, Hindi film industry (out of Mumbai) used English in all their print material. Whether it was Mother India or Mera Naam Joker, all text was in English. If the film was based on an Indian-English novel like RK Narayan's Guide or a Bengali classic like Devdas, the language was English.
Hindi film posters always used English. In the age of LP records, LP sleeves of Hindi film music were in English. Later cassette covers were also in English – and now CDs, DVDs also come in English jackets. Even though a vast majority of the Hindi-film audience had no knowledge of English, Hindi film industry persisted with English.
Interesting! Just why did Hindi cinema end up using English so extensively! I could think of three reasons.
The law of the land
Was it because the Censor Board certification happened in English? The Censor Board bench for South India is different – and standards and norms followed by them are different. Did the South India Censor Board accept South Indian languages – which may have allowed South Indian film industry to use local languages.
Censor legislation was introduced in India at a time (1918) when her British rulers were determined that cinema should serve, unflinchingly, their colonial interests. There was no indigenous film industry at that time and the canons of censorship targeted films imported from the west, especially the US. The British wanted these films to create a rosy picture about the west and the western people's intentions in the colonies. The Regional Censor Boards, were constituted in 1920 and each one technically autonomous … (from From Coercion to Power Relations: Film Censorship in Post-Colonial India by Someswar Bhowmik).
Ours is not to reason why …
Was it because the scripts had to be typed in English. Remember, no Hindi type writers, till the 1960s and Hindi typists were rare and far in between. Or was it because multinationals controlled the Indian music scene till the late 80s – and the gora bosses did not know Hindi.
Kodambakkam (home of Tamil and for some time Telugu cinema) used Tamil and Telugu mostly on their cassette covers. Tamil and Telugu posters were also in Tamil and Telugu respectively.
That 'insecure' feeling
The Mumbai film industry always had a complex about not being 'good enough' in comparison to Hollywood. Bollywood (Bombay based film industry), Kollywood (Kodambakkam based Tamil/Telugu industry) and Tollywood (for Telugu film industry) were deprecating names used by the gossip journalists – which stuck.
The Tamil and Telugu film industry had no such insecurities – and were always clear about their audience. The look and feel of the Tamil /Telugu films is also different from Mumbai-Hindi film industry.
Between 1967 upto nearly 1973, Chennai invaded the Hindi turf. Using actors like Jeetendra and Mumtaz, they worked on lower costs films, raunchier choreography of the songs and invited the description of 'spaghetti' Bollywood. Curiously, it coincided with the spaghetti wave in Hollywood. The second invasion of Chennai into the Hindi turf happened during the 1980-1990 decade. This time with major stars like Amitabh Bachchan in tow.
The glory of the English
There is the usual argument trotted out that English serves as the 'link language in the Mumbai film industry. As can be seen from some simple data, this argument is fallacious.
The South Indian film industry is significantly insular – catering to its specific clientele, attracting artistes from its home ground. But the Mumbai film industry attracts people from all over India. Is it that they found it easier to deal with each other in English – than in Hindi? Doubtful.
90% of the movers and shakers in Mumbai film industry are either Muslim or Punjabis. There is a token presence from the rest of the communities. It would have been easy for the Punjabis and Muslims to work in Urdu or Hindi. Till about the 60s, Indian actors had to change their name – from Yusufbhai to Dilip Kumar for instance.
All this raises more questions in my mind – and maybe some readers will have answers.
What should Indian film industry expect in '09?- Business of Bollywood-The Economic Times
India's biggest money-spinner film was a Tamil film—Sivaji, starring none other than the superstar Rajinikant. Of course, there is the fact that the Aamir Khan starrer Ghajini is a remake of a Tamil film.
Even at debated figures, Sivaji's gross of over Rs 100 crore was unheard of for Indian films, leave alone any regional cinema. India's status as the largest film industry in the world comes from the combined forces of 22 languages, including Hindi which released 1,146 films in 2007 (according to the Ficci Frames PwC E&Y report 2008).
Of the over 1,000 films, only 257 were Hindi with Telugu coming close with 241 and Tamil in third place with 149, Kannada with 111 and Marathi with 97. The figures changed to mostly lesser numbers for regional yet the order remains more or less the same. Even if Hindi films muscle in with more commerce making up approximately 45% of the total Rs 96 billion filmed market (apprx), the other 55% cannot be ignored. (via What regional film industry should expect in '09?- Business of Bollywood-Features-The Economic Times).
A few interesting aspects: –
1. The English media in India and the Westernized Indians snidely refer to the Indian film industry as Bollywood (Mumbai), Tollywood (Telugu film industry) Mollywood (Madras, Malayalam) Kollywood (Kodambakkam, Kolkatta) – as one would refer a poor country cousin.
2. Fact is the Indian film industry is driven by a completely different idiom, ethos when compared to Hollywood. In fact, Indian film industry itself is actually about 4-5 centres of film making (for different languages) – spread all over the country. Each of these centres have different film styles. So, the Indian film industry owes nothing to Hollywood – and Indians have difficulty in believing that. Hollywood is singularly unsuccessful in India.
3. The State is possibly the biggest drag on this industry – which is weighed down by heavy taxes.
4. The Mumbai industry remains dominated after a 70 years, by Punjabis and Muslims. There is something about (their cultural mix which enables) this dominance.
5. Isolated international success and limited (international) distribution organization of the industry, has stopped this industry from competing in the world markets. The completely different idiom and the creative mix, will create its own separate market.
6. Till about 10 years ago, Indian film industry was considered too 'infradig' to be studied, analysed or even understood – by the academia. That is slowly changing. Some interesting books and writers have emerged in the last 1 decade.


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1. Re: TTALE-69 Jenkins pluginjesper.pedersen Nov 30, 2011 1:34 PM (in response to vtunka)1 of 1 people found this helpful
Last I looked it required a Jenkins specific integration in order for the reports to be tightly integrated in the Jenkins UI - like the checkstyle and findbugs reports.
Since we would need multiple output formats it would be best to create a generic XML format that could be transformed into the necessary output format, like HTML when running on the command line. TTALE-118 has an old prototype for PDF generation.
Integration with analysis collector seems like a good idea.
I would start with an XSD which can represent all the reports we have today, then create a StAX model + parser for it.
Share your thoughts on the development roadmap for this feature.
First things first of course - fork https://github.com/jesperpedersen/tattletale
2. Re: TTALE-69 Jenkins pluginvtunka Nov 30, 2011 2:23 PM (in response to jesper.pedersen)
Thanks for commenting on this so quickly Jesper. I will check the requirements for report integration in Jenkins community, more specifically analysis report format of various analysis tools such as tattletale, and let you know. Also the format for Jenkins GUI is changing, as they will be transfering from the current markup language to some other solution, I need to look at the details, find out the timeframe for this change and see how and if will it impact Tattletale plugin development.
In case the XML format requirement is a must by Jenkins community, the path you proposed with creating a XSD, StAX model and parser seems very reasonable. This would be the phase I).
II) I will work on creating Jenkins integration for running and configuring tattletale.
III) In the final step I would add the integration with the analysis collector tools.
Related question: What about other formats such as JSON or YAML? Will we gain some advantage by using them, or do you think it's better to stick with XML?
In case the XML report format is an optional feature I will first start with working on II, then see the requirements of analysis collector tools and if it's necessary implement the generic XML model for tattletale and work on III.
3. Re: TTALE-69 Jenkins pluginjesper.pedersen Nov 30, 2011 3:21 PM (in response to vtunka)
I think sticking to plain XML is best - easier to transform in other formats.
Just update this thread with your findings, and we can take it from there.
4. Re: TTALE-69 Jenkins pluginvtunka Dec 5, 2011 10:11 AM (in response to jesper.pedersen)
I have asked Vojtech Juranek, our Jenkins admin and active contributor in Jenkins commnity, and I was told plain HTML is alright both for showing the report and aggregating it to the Analysis collector plugin.
So in the first iteration the plugin will have integrated configuration and execution in Jenkins environment. Then I will reevaluate the Analysis Collector plugin requirements during implementation and see, what would we gain from XML report instead an HTML report. So far the Analysis collector plugin only requires developers to implement few abstract methods and that should be it, the report can be either in HTML/XML. After this is done I may work on the XML output as an optional task.
If anyone has some features, that would be nice for this integration, feel free to post the requests here and I will evaluate it.
5. Re: TTALE-69 Jenkins pluginvtunka May 29, 2012 5:51 PM (in response to vtunka)
I have created an initial release of Jenkins Tattletale plugin, that integrates Tattletale reports, enables easy configuration using Jenkins build action and archivation of reports as a post-build action.
Jenkins plugin page:
Jenkins plugin manager should find it automatically when installing a new plugin, if not it's available here:
Jenkins development community has accepted the plugin, and sources are cloned here:
For future releases I would like to achieve integration with Analysis collector plugin [2].
I will ask the Jenkins community to create a tattletale-plugin component in their JIRA, so all plugin related issues and feature requests can be tracked there.
6. Re: TTALE-69 Jenkins pluginjesper.pedersen May 30, 2012 8:43 AM (in response to vtunka)
Very cool !


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But all that will have to wait until after I tell you about (Does linking to a press release count as "telling"?)* the initiative Mayor McGinn announced today: Walk Bike Ride. Here's what the Seattle.gov has to say about it:
We are at a turning point in transportation. We cannot sustain the financial, environmental and health costs of a transportation system that is overly reliant on automobiles. We need a new balanced approach that creates a transition. We are prepared to commit to that path by prioritizing walking, biking and transit in how we use our streets, how we spend our dollars, and how we collaborate with county, state and federal governments. [Can I get an amen?]
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• Create an equitable transportation system for all by providing more affordable travel choices
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• Prioritize right-of-way space to emphasize walking, biking and riding
We so need to do this. Thank you, Mayor McGinn, for showing leadership on an issue that is so important to the future of our city–and our planet. Here's hoping it results in real changes in the way folks get around this town.
*There's analysis and discussion of the details (what few are known at this point) over at STB.


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